Building OpenOCD from Sources for Windows

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The following instructions are alternative to downloading binary OpenOCD from Espressif GitHub. To quickly setup the binary OpenOCD, instead of compiling it yourself, backup and proceed to section Setup of OpenOCD.

Note

Following instructions are assumed to be runned in MSYS2 environment with MINGW32 subsystem!

Install Dependencies

Install packages that are required to compile OpenOCD:

pacman -S --noconfirm --needed autoconf automake git make \
mingw-w64-i686-gcc \
mingw-w64-i686-toolchain \
mingw-w64-i686-libtool \
mingw-w64-i686-pkg-config \
mingw-w64-cross-winpthreads-git \
p7zip

Download Sources of OpenOCD

The sources for the ESP32-enabled variant of OpenOCD are available from Espressif GitHub under https://github.com/espressif/openocd-esp32. To download the sources, use the following commands:

cd ~/esp
git clone --recursive https://github.com/espressif/openocd-esp32.git

The clone of sources should be now saved in ~/esp/openocd-esp32 directory.

Downloading libusb

Build and export variables for a following OpenOCD compilation:

wget https://github.com/libusb/libusb/releases/download/v1.0.22/libusb-1.0.22.7z
7z x -olibusb ./libusb-1.0.22.7z
export CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -I${PWD}/libusb/include/libusb-1.0"
export LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -L${PWD}/libusb/MinGW32/.libs/dll"

Build OpenOCD

Proceed with configuring and building OpenOCD:

cd ~/esp/openocd-esp32
export CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -D__USE_MINGW_ANSI_STDIO=1 -Wno-error"; export CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -Wno-error"
./bootstrap
./configure --disable-doxygen-pdf --enable-ftdi --enable-jlink --enable-ulink --build=i686-w64-mingw32 --host=i686-w64-mingw32
make
cp ../libusb/MinGW32/dll/libusb-1.0.dll ./src
cp /opt/i686-w64-mingw32/bin/libwinpthread-1.dll ./src

Optionally you can add make install step at the end. Skip it, if you have an existing OpenOCD (from e.g. another development platform), as it may get overwritten. Also you could use export DESTDIR="/custom/install/dir"; make install.

Note

  • Should an error occur, resolve it and try again until the command make works.

  • If there is a submodule problem from OpenOCD, please cd to the openocd-esp32 directory and input git submodule update --init.

  • If the ./configure is successfully run, information of enabled JTAG will be printed under OpenOCD configuration summary.

  • If the information of your device is not shown in the log, use ./configure to enable it as described in ../openocd-esp32/doc/INSTALL.txt.

  • For details concerning compiling OpenOCD, please refer to openocd-esp32/README.Windows.

  • Don’t forget to copy libusb-1.0.dll and libwinpthread-1.dll into OOCD_INSTALLDIR/bin from ~/esp/openocd-esp32/src.

Once make process is successfully completed, the executable of OpenOCD will be saved in ~/esp/openocd-esp32/src directory.

Full Listing

A complete described previously process is provided below for the faster execution, e.g. as a shell script:

pacman -S --noconfirm --needed autoconf automake git make mingw-w64-i686-gcc mingw-w64-i686-toolchain mingw-w64-i686-libtool mingw-w64-i686-pkg-config mingw-w64-cross-winpthreads-git p7zip
cd ~/esp
git clone --recursive https://github.com/espressif/openocd-esp32.git

wget https://github.com/libusb/libusb/releases/download/v1.0.22/libusb-1.0.22.7z
7z x -olibusb ./libusb-1.0.22.7z
export CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -I${PWD}/libusb/include/libusb-1.0"; export LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -L${PWD}/libusb/MinGW32/.libs/dll"

export CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -D__USE_MINGW_ANSI_STDIO=1 -Wno-error"; export CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -Wno-error"
cd ~/esp/openocd-esp32
./bootstrap
./configure --disable-doxygen-pdf --enable-ftdi --enable-jlink --enable-ulink --build=i686-w64-mingw32 --host=i686-w64-mingw32
make
cp ../libusb/MinGW32/dll/libusb-1.0.dll ./src
cp /opt/i686-w64-mingw32/bin/libwinpthread-1.dll ./src

# # optional
# export DESTDIR="$PWD"
# make install
# cp ./src/libusb-1.0.dll $DESTDIR/mingw32/bin
# cp ./src/libwinpthread-1.dll $DESTDIR/mingw32/bin

Next Steps

To carry on with debugging environment setup, proceed to section Configuring ESP32 Target.

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